Cover Model Babette Beatty holds the January 20, 1964 Sports Illustrated....The magazine's first swimsuit edition. At the time. she was an internationally known model gracing the covers of many magazines and partying with the likes of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger. She now lives a more sedate life in Halfway Oregon.

Tyra Banks poses with Elaine Farley Senior Editor of the 1997 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, at a reception on February 18, 1997 in New York. Tyra became the first African American model to appear alone on the cover and the fourth to appear on the cover in consecutive years.

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